Medium for all artwork: "spray paint & acrylics"

Brian Gonnella's statement:

I am a conceptual artist and illustrator living in the Steel City. I didn't go to school for this shit. Just kinda fell into it.  For me, my art is about reconciliation and the constant struggle for reconciliation between opposing ideologies and styles. Whether it's a reconciliation between the brute vibrancy and assertiveness of street art and the refined narratives of classical paintings. Or between the real and the surreal. Between science fiction and religious fiction. Between our preconceptions about our own venerated icons and the perception of those same icons in the eyes of the "Other". With every piece I produce, I aim for an end result that somehow amalgamates as many different world views as possible into one image or one narrative. Something that will hopefully take the inevitable clash of multiple subjective understandings and hammer it into an objective one. Or something.
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